You, Me, And Btc: Liberty & Bitcoin

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e180This is episode 180 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.“Just lost 3k in the blink of an eye.”That’s the depressing sentiment shared by a royally screwed Ethereum trader this week. Network congestion (probably) led to a significant ETH selloff, which led to cascading stop orders on the exchanges, which led to automatic ETH trades at extremely low prices. Everything functioned exactly as intended, according to GDAX.How (and why) on earth did all this go down? Is Ethereum in trouble? Some people really think so. And of course we need to chime in with our own opinions, so ETH will be our first topic during tonight’s livestream.Then later in the show, we’ll explore this week’s news about SegWit2x and the New York Agreement. After surviving the recent UAHF storm, Bitcoin may finally have reached a level of consensus. SegWit is coming soon, if all goes well. Tonight we’ll explain how the agreement came about, how we expect it to play out, and much mor

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e179This is episode 179 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.In case you somehow missed it: Bitmain announced that they’ll execute a hard fork this August to combat the scheduled user activated soft fork (UASF). They’re calling it a user activated hard fork (UAHF), but many people consider it a miner activated hard fork. Bitmain will essentially create their own altcoin and some exchanges are already planning to list it as BitmainCoin.Will this finally end Bitcoin’s civil war? We certainly haven’t finished scaling Bitcoin, but will this fork allow our two halves to mutually part ways? Will it be peaceful?Tonight we’ll share some technical details and vent our (less technical) feelings about this whole forking mess. You do NOT want to miss this episode. Tune in at 9PM Eastern and check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- Examining Bitmain’s Press Release- Game of Bluffs? With UAHF, Bitcoin Scaling Becomes Digital ‘Missile Cri

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e178This is episode 178 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.First up today, we’ll share an investment strategy revealed by a well-known investor, David Siegel. This is certainly not investment advice – we can’t and won’t provide that. Rather, this is the actual plan that Spiegel says he’ll use for his own money. His goal is to beat today’s bubbly crypto environment.Are bubbles even a thing? How hard should we look for bottoms or tops when everything climbs so high, so fast? Do we trust Spiegel’s plan? Tune in tonight for our thoughts on all those questions and tons more.Then later in the show, we’ll cover some BIP148 theories from Jimmy Song. What could happen when Bitcoin’s UASF kicks in on August 1st? What will the miners do and what will the users do? Will the competing chains wreak havoc on transactions?Catch tonight’s livestream for all the details and check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- Op Ed: Crypto-Investing i

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e177This is episode 177 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.To kick off today’s show, we’ll list four major factors driving Bitcoin’s recent record prices. It seems like we’ve constantly celebrated new all-time highs over the past few weeks. And naturally, we want to know what’s causing the spike, so we’ll share some of the leading theories during our stream.Then later in the show, we’ll cover a new development in the Coinbase vs. IRS saga (http://ymb.tc/e150). Apparently, some Republican legislators recently defended Coinbase in a letter to the IRS.Why would they do that? What did they say was wrong with the IRS’s probe? What will come of all this? As usual, we have no clue, but we’ll tell you what we think anyway.Tune in tonight for more details and opinions and check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- 4 reasons why bitcoin keeps hitting new highs- IRS Probe of Bitcoin Goes Too Far, GOP WarnsYour hosts this week are Dani

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e176This is episode 176 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.Daniel is out of town this week and doesn’t have much time for shownotes, so we’ll keep this short. Tonight’s show is all about the new scaling Bitcoin agreement signed by numerous Bitcoin bigshots at Consensus 2017. It includes a smaller SegWit activation threshold and a 2 MB hard fork timeline.Tune in tonight for more details and opinions and check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- Bitcoin Scaling Agreement at Consensus 2017- Bitcoin’s New Scaling ‘Agreement’: The ReactionYour host this week is just Tim Baker. Don’t forget to visit http://ymb.tc/e176 so you can keep up with our open tweet lines, vote in this week’s Bitcoin poll, and share your thoughts in the comments!Every click helps. If this Bitcoin podcast was interesting, entertaining, obnoxious, or anything else, use the share buttons to let others know that it exists.Or to support YMB more directly, subs

MP3, Poll, Links, & More: http://ymb.tc/e175This is episode 175 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.How much do you know about ICOs? Do you even know what ICO stands for? I had some friends asking about altcoins lately and “initial coin offerings” came up. I decided it would be an important thing to chat about on the air, so that’s where we’ll kick things off tonight. We’ll use a new ICO quiz from Cointelegraph to test our knowledge (and yours!) during the stream.Then after that, we’ll dive into Ethereum’s new decentralized exchange, 0x OTC. If it works, it will allow people to trustlessly trade certain Ethereum tokens, much like Counterparty’s DEX. This could be a huge leap for Ethereum, since it should allow a great deal of token trade with minimal risk.Will the exchange take off? When and why should people use it? Tune in tonight for our thoughts and check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- IC..what? Test your ICO knowledge with Waves Platform- Decentralize

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e174This is episode 174 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.SegWit is finally here! Err, at least it’s here for Litecoin. As of yesterday, the altcoin had enough SegWit support for enough time to turn on the feature. It will still take awhile for wallets and other Litecoin infrastructure to really make use of the new feature, but it’s a start.What does this mean for Bitcoin? Will Litecoin suddenly take on some of Bitcoin’s excess transaction volume? What’s the next step for scaling Litecoin? What about Lightning Network? We’ll do our best to answer those questions and more during tonight’s stream.Then later in the show, we’ll discuss Australia’s decision to accept Bitcoin as real money. In the past, Australia taxed the crap out of Bitcoin, causing innovation to flee the country. No one could develop or use Bitcoin down under because it was too expensive. But now, since Bitcoin will be considered money, traders can buy and sell it without those crazy

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e173This is episode 173 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.First up today, we definitely have to cover the Bitcoin price. We celebrated a new all-time high last week and this week we’re even higher. Then again, we crashed $100 in just one hour today. So what the heck is going on? Should we buy? Sell? We have no clue, but we’re gonna tell you what we think anyway.Then later in the show, we’ll cover a story about a Phoenix-based Bitcoin trader, Morpheus Titania, whose home was raided by the feds. He was supposedly operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. And naturally, that means we have to call in armored vehicles full or armed men to break in and look through all his stuff. We’ll share more details and plenty of opinions on the air.Tune in tonight for an absolute blast and check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- Bitcoin Exchange Spreads Straddle $1600, Demeester ‘Quite Sure’ Of Future Bubble- Bitcoin Drops $1

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e172This is episode 172 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast.So apparently Antminers have a backdoor that allows the manufacturer to remotely shut down the devices? And apparently the security surrounding the feature is not very strong? With an estimated 70% of existing hash power coming from Antminers, this could be a huge vulnerability for Bitcoin. We’ll cover the details and speculate during the first half of our livestream tonight.Then later in the show, we have to spend some time celebrating Bitcoin’s recent record prices. It’s well over $1300 at the moment and of course, we couldn’t be happier. How long will this last? Should we expect a correction or a breakout? We have no clue but we’re gonna tell you what we think anyway.Tune in tonight for an absolute blast and check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- The Antbleed Backdoor- Antbleed: Bitcoin’s Newest New Controversy Explained- Bitcoin jumps to a new all-time high

MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e171This is episode 171 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast. Happy 420! Today’s show is all about weed and the end of Bitcoin. Unfortunately, most of us are unable to stream this week, so your host is just Tim Baker.First up, weed. It’s April 20 and for whatever reason, that means it’s time to get high, celebrate life, and run from the cops. Tim is on the scene to share what Bitcoin means for drugs and vice versa.And the absolute best part: Tim will reveal our list of the top 5 Bitcoiners that love weed. We’re not sure if these people are massive stoners or if they just love to get high on freedom, but they all use Bitcoin and they all support the use of cannabis. Tune in to find out who they are!Then later in the show, Tim will cover an article by someone who thinks Bitcoin is finally done. Sure, the media publishes Bitcoin obituaries daily, and most of them mean nothing. But this guy is actually into Bitcoin and has been for years. He’s remembers MtGox

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e170This is episode 170 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!First up today, we definitely have to cover Bitcoin’s recent SegWit UASF drama. The acronym stand for “user activated soft fork” and many hope the concept will allow Segregated Witness to activate sooner.As it stands, we need 95% of Bitcoin’s mining power to signal support for SegWit before it activates, but that kind of consensus has proven difficult to achieve. The UASF proposal aims to hasten consensus by giving users a stronger voice. Is this safe? What are the real differences in these two soft fork activation plans?Then later in the show, we’ll chat about three countries that have significant influence in the Bitcoin space. They all have growing populations, wealth, and infrastructure, so they could be positioned to take control of the future of finance.We’ll have the scoop and endless opinions while we’re live tonight. Check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e169This is episode 169 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!To kick things off today, we’ll dive into a discussion about a Bitcoin mining method called ASICBOOST. The concept makes Bitcoin miners as much as 30% more efficient, which could generate an estimated $100 million in additional annual revenue for a large mining operation. Efficiency is usually a good thing, but ASICBOOST comes with extra baggage that has been causing drama in the Bitcoin space.First of all, the idea is patented. That might sound absurd, but it’s true. So tonight we’ll chat about what it means for Bitcoin. Would miners really respect this kind of patent?But ASICBOOST gets even more interesting when it comes to Segregated Witness because the two technologies are not compatible. Some have theorized, then, that certain miners have been so hesitant to adopt SegWit because they are covertly profiting from this exploit. How likely is that? Is this why Roger Ver hates SegWit?Then l

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e168This is episode 168 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast! This week we have two main topics lined up: Heleum and Amir Taaki.To kick things off, we have a fantastic guest with us, Pace Ellsworth, the creator of Heleum. The upcoming service will automatically and algorithmically trade your money between several world currencies and cryptocurrencies. Rather than trying to game a single exchange pair (like BTC/USD), the program regularly checks numerous currencies for gains and moves into the best one.Can this really work? How much money could it make? Why do we need something like this? How can we get involved? Pace will have all the answers tonight. And remember you can ask your own questions in the chat while we’re live!Then later in the show, we’ll cover anarchist Bitcoiner Amir Taaki’s recent run-in with ISIS. He used to work on anonymous, anarcho-capitalist projects like DarkWallet and OpenBazaar, but he was more or less lost for the past two y

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e167This is episode 167 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!Bitcoin Unlimited drama continues. This week, one popular Bitcoin exchange, Bitfinex, announced an interesting new feature called Chain Split Tokens. No one knows if or when Bitcoin Unlimited will become a thing, but CSTs allow traders to get involved early. One (current) Bitcoin equals one Bitcoin Core plus one Bitcoin Unlimited, which reflects the way things would work in a real hard fork. We’ll share more details and plenty of opinion during tonight’s stream.That news made it sound like BTU was gaining ground, but just yesterday, the software ran into more bugs. Unlimited nodes were crashing left and right, and the developers’ came up with a solution that baffled many people. They decided to release closed source patches.That’s right. Bitcoin has always been almost universally praised for having an open source, and Bitcoin Unlimited decided to take that away. What does this mean for the

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e166This is episode 166 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!Bitcoin’s had a crazy few weeks. The mempool is flooded, fees are soaring, and the community is buzzing about a hard fork. One of Bitcoin’s largest mining pools made switch to Bitcoin Unlimited. Then Unlimited nodes started crashing because of a bug in the code.What does all of this mean? We like to remain calm at YMB and try not to worry about much, but maybe this should be a serious concern. What would happen if there was a hard fork? Would we rather have giant fees or a split network? We’ll cover all that and more on this week’s YMBLive stream.Then to wrap things up, we’ll think about where Bitcoin would be without China. The country drives tons of Bitcoin trade and mining, but we’re not sure if that’s good or bad. Are the Chinese supporting the network or grabbing to much control over it?Tune in tonight for our thoughts and check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cov

MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e165This is episode 165 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!Daniel is out of town this week but Tim and John still have an outstanding show planned! First up, they’ll dive into John’s theory about dystopian cryptogarchy. We covered the idea of blockchain-based governance last week, but John still has plenty of ideas about the kind of world it would create if it really existed.Then after that, the guys will chat about WikiLeaks’ massive Vault 7 data dump. Apparently, the CIA has been able and willing to spy on US citizens for years. And they’ve done it through smart TVs, smartphones, and other tech. This might sound terrible at first, but are we really surprised? Where do we go from here?Check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- The Cryptogarchist’s Dystopia- Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools RevealedYour hosts are Tim Baker and John Stuart. Don’t forget to scroll down so you can keep up with our open tweet lines, vote in this week’s Bit

MP3, Poll, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e164This is episode 164 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!This week we have a special guest with us, the founder of a decentralized autonomous organization called TheBlexit. He goes by the nickname Free From Chains and we loved his comments during a few of our recent shows, so we figured we’d bring him on the air!Free will share some thoughts on blockchainarchy – the idea that the blockchain could help govern a free society. Can we use Bitcoin for some kind of legitimate voting? Do we even need more ways to rule people? Would it really be free?Also in today’s show, we’ll investigate the (rising) Bitcoin market cap and where it could end up. What would be the price of one Bitcoin if all of them together were worth as much as Samsung? Or Microsoft? Or even Apple?Check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- If Bitcoin had the same market cap as…- Blockchainarchy: Rule by Blockchain?Your hosts are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, and Jo

MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e163This is episode 163 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!First up this week, we’ll investigate a convoluted story about phantom stock.A few years back, Dole Food’s CEO decided to go private by buying up all of his company’s publicly owned shares. Then months later, a court ruled that he didn’t pay a fair price for each share. This meant that he owed a few extra bucks per share to everyone who owned stock during the buyout. But as people started to submit claims for that extra cash, it turned out that they thought they owned more Dole shares than had ever existed.Similar equity ownership problems have plagued Wall Street for decades. So today, we’ll cover this story in detail and explain how blockchain assets can (and should) significantly improve the way we track who owns how much of what.Then later in the show, we’ll cover a fascinating security exploit that could affect even the most secure computers. People generally think that air-gapped machines c

MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e162This is episode 162 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!First up in this week’s show, we’ll cover the upcoming blockchain-based trading card game, Spells of Genesis. The project seems to have tons of potential, but some people don’t like the way it’s being developed and think it could fail. We’ll explain how the game works and decide whether or not we expect it to succeed.Then after that, we’ll share some conflicting opinions about altcoins in general. Many coins have gained value over the past few days, but some Bitcoiners still insist that they can’t live forever. We’ll chat about what we think is the purpose of altcoins, which ones we expect to survive the longest, how they compare to Bitcoin, and much more.Check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll cover!- BLOCKCHAIN CARDS AND BITCRYSTALS FOR EVERYONE!- Crypto Traders Flock to Altcoins Amid Bitcoin Price Malaise- 90 Percent of Altcoins Won’t Survive But Bitcoin Is SustainableYour

MP3, Links, and More: http://ymb.tc/e161This is episode 161 of You, Me, and BTC – your liberty and Bitcoin podcast!Almost two years ago, we produced a live Bitcoin news show every week for a whole summer. We called it #YMBLive and it was awesome. We haven’t done much live work since then, but we decided it’s time to relive our glory days.So tune in right now for our comeback episode! We’ll cover China’s recent warning to Bitcoin exchanges, Japan’s attitude toward Bitcoin usage in general, and much more. Check the list below for some of the specific stories we’ll chat about.- China central bank says warned bitcoin exchanges of closure risk on rule violations- Bitcoins Become Legal Tender in Japan, With Strict Regulation- Chicago suburb prepares to sell $10,000 in bitcoinsYour hosts are Daniel Brown, Tim Baker, John Stuart, and Zack Voell. Don’t forget to keep up with our open tweet lines, vote in this week’s Bitcoin poll, and share your thoughts in the comments!We’d also like to thank this episode’s sponsor, R